Einar Stefferud a écrit:
>
> It seems to me, given the content and tone of the NTIA "Cooperative
> agreement with ICANN" that it is time for ORSC and DNSO.ORG to put
> together a serious proposal to NTIA/ICANN to convene a Fair Hearing
> Panel to take on the task of sorting out the facts relating to the
> backlog of conflicting TLD registry claims.
>
> The issues of the gTLD backlog has so far not been discussed in any
> serious way that I know of, and it certainly was not discussed in any
> serious way in Monterey. Indeed, there ws no place in the results
> from Monterey for prospective gTLD to have any kind of voice as a
> stakeholder constituency. This will have to be taken care of soon byt
> the DNS community, or some otehr solution will have to be imposed from
> otehr quarters.
>
> At the DNSO.ORG meeting in Monterey, there was a solid consensus for
> DNSO and for ICANN to enable Fair Hearing Panels for the purpose of
> giving all concerned Internet stakeholders a voice with which to be
> heard with certainty by those who will be making decisions on their
> behalf.
>
> One of the purposes discussed in Monterey, and often discussed in in
> the past by ORSC, is the use of Fair Hearing Panels to collect,
> analyze, and validate the facts regarding the mass of conflicts among
> TLD contenders that have arisen over the last several years. Indeed,
> Fair Hearing Panels were included in the ORSC Bylaws as proposed to
> NTIA, and have been on the ORSC agenda for most of the past year.
>
> I propose that the time has come to initiate serious actions to put
> the desired Fair Hearing Panels in place. I suggest that this be done
> by preparing a proposal to the NTIA and to ICANN for action under
> their new Cooperative agreement.
>
> I propose that cooperative action now to resolve actual conflict
> problems among the involved parties is one of the very best ways for
> everyone to demonstrate readiness to proceed with transition of DNS
> from US Govt control to Internet Community control. And I propose
> that those of us who are closest to the issues should take the first
> steps to initiate action, while ICANN is still groping for its proper
> place in the cooperative coordination management structures of the
> Internet.
>
> This cooperative effort should be focused on resolving all the TLD
> conflicts so that sooner, rather than later, we (of the Internet
> Community) can begin to add new TLD registries to the root and thus
> remedy the underlying cause of all our problems, which is the market
> structure failure created by restricting the expansion of TLD names
> and thus spawning the NSI monopoly.
>
> Monopolies are caused by market structure failures, and not the other
> way around. So, one of the early things we need to do is enable
> expansion of the gTLD namesapce, and enable competition for NSI, and
> thus reduce and someday eliminating the current monopoly situation.
>
> So, how about putting together a joint DNSO/ORSC project team to work
> on development of a Fair Hearing Panel Proposal for gTLD Conflcit
> Resolution.
>
> Cheers...\Stef
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